Land Managers Lunch Invitation
We need your vote today, and every day until November 30 for Operation Outdoors
Candidates will answer your questions on environmental, energy, sustainability, and growth management issues
For their Future Forward Grant Contest,SportDOG Brand® has chosen the conservation project that Tall Timbers Outreach & Education Coordinator, Dr. Theron Terhune proposed, along with Dr. James Martin at Mississippi State University. Tall Timbers’ project,Operation Outdoors, was nominated as 1 of 7 projects to choose from to receive a $25,000 grant. The project receiving the most votes will be awarded the grant. To win the grant contest, we need your vote today, and every day until November 30.
About Operation Outdoors
The Operation Outdoors grant request is for developing and planning an intensive semester of outdoor education for young adults at the college/university level. Grant funds, if awarded, will go towards paying for travel of project planning partners (i.e., from Clemson University, Mississippi State University, Washington College, etc.), for course development, and to undergraduate students and young adults to offset costs incurred for university classes, such as Upland Avian Ecology, when visiting the field site. Project Outdoors allow students to visit field research stations, participate in research and learn about practical habitat management without paying the out-of-pocket expenses associated with field site visits.
How can you vote for Operation Outdoors?
To see the project proposal and to vote for it, please visit http://fff.sportdog.com/project/1/operation-outdoors/.
You can start voting today and can vote once every day until November 30. You can also vote at the SportDOG™ contest page on their website: www.sportdog.com/FFF.
Visit their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/SportDOGBrand, or follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/SportDOGBrand
Why should you vote for our grant proposal?
Voting for Operation Outdoors enhances conservation and natural resource education for young adults by bringing them into the outdoors for a practical, hands-on research and education experience at Tall Timbers. The intent of the project is to foster the integration of hunting and game management into education. The ultimate goal of this project is to conserve and protect upland and grassland ecosystems, the species inhabiting them, and retaining the hunting legacy. Students will leave the program as effective upland bird biologists, well-versed in habitat management, and the ability to educate others on these topics. We believe this will have a cascading effect such that our culture of upland hunting will be preserved for future generations. PLEASE vote for Operation Outdoors!
Why did SportDOG™ have a contest?
SportDOG™ and their families enjoy many of the same hunting opportunities and outdoor activities as their customers. As a result, they recognize the importance of wise conservation and habitat-enhancement initiatives. SportDOG supports conservation efforts by contributing time and funding to projects that ensure hunters will have wild places to hunt wild game for generations to come. From habitat-enhancement projects at the local level to partnerships with some of the most proactive and respected national conservation organizations, SportDOG is proud to contribute.
Candidates will answer your questions on environmental, energy, sustainability, and growth management issues
Candidates will answer your questions on environmental, energy, sustainability, and growth management issues
The Big Bend Environmental Forum and the League of Women Voters of Tallahassee are hosting a candidates' forum on Thursday, October 18th, 2012 for candidates including Tallahassee City Commission Seat 1, Leon County Commission At Large District and District 2, Florida House District 9, and Florida Senate District 3.
Citizens will have the opportunity to suggest questions covering environmental, energy, sustainability, and growth management issues. WFSU's Tom Flanigan will serve as moderator.
The event will be held at the LeRoy Collins Library, 200 West Park Avenue, Meeting Rooms A & B. The forum will run from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, and will be preceded at 5:15 PM by a candidate meet and greet along with displays by host environmental and civic organizations. Your presence is needed to show the candidates you care about these critical issues in our community.
As of today, the following candidates have committed to participate:
County Commission at large
- Akin Akinyemi
- Mary Ann Lindley
County Commission District 2
- Jane Sauls
- Kirk Headley-Perdue
City Commission Seat 1
- Scott Maddox
- Steve Stewart
Florida House District 9
- Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda
- Bradley Maxwell
Florida Senate District 3
- Bill Montford
- John Shaw
We need your vote today, and every day until November 30 for Operation Outdoors
We need your vote today, and every day until November 30 for Operation Outdoors
For their Future Forward Grant Contest,SportDOG Brand® has chosen the conservation project that Tall Timbers Outreach & Education Coordinator, Dr. Theron Terhune proposed, along with Dr. James Martin at Mississippi State University. Tall Timbers’ project,Operation Outdoors, was nominated as 1 of 7 projects to choose from to receive a $25,000 grant. The project receiving the most votes will be awarded the grant. To win the grant contest, we need your vote today, and every day until November 30.
About Operation Outdoors
The Operation Outdoors grant request is for developing and planning an intensive semester of outdoor education for young adults at the college/university level. Grant funds, if awarded, will go towards paying for travel of project planning partners (i.e., from Clemson University, Mississippi State University, Washington College, etc.), for course development, and to undergraduate students and young adults to offset costs incurred for university classes, such as Upland Avian Ecology, when visiting the field site. Project Outdoors allow students to visit field research stations, participate in research and learn about practical habitat management without paying the out-of-pocket expenses associated with field site visits.
How can you vote for Operation Outdoors?
To see the project proposal and to vote for it, please visit http://fff.sportdog.com/project/1/operation-outdoors/.
You can start voting today and can vote once every day until November 30. You can also vote at the SportDOG™ contest page on their website: www.sportdog.com/FFF.
Visit their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/SportDOGBrand, or follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/SportDOGBrand
Why should you vote for our grant proposal?
Voting for Operation Outdoors enhances conservation and natural resource education for young adults by bringing them into the outdoors for a practical, hands-on research and education experience at Tall Timbers. The intent of the project is to foster the integration of hunting and game management into education. The ultimate goal of this project is to conserve and protect upland and grassland ecosystems, the species inhabiting them, and retaining the hunting legacy. Students will leave the program as effective upland bird biologists, well-versed in habitat management, and the ability to educate others on these topics. We believe this will have a cascading effect such that our culture of upland hunting will be preserved for future generations. PLEASE vote for Operation Outdoors!
Why did SportDOG™ have a contest?
SportDOG™ and their families enjoy many of the same hunting opportunities and outdoor activities as their customers. As a result, they recognize the importance of wise conservation and habitat-enhancement initiatives. SportDOG supports conservation efforts by contributing time and funding to projects that ensure hunters will have wild places to hunt wild game for generations to come. From habitat-enhancement projects at the local level to partnerships with some of the most proactive and respected national conservation organizations, SportDOG is proud to contribute.
A history of Tall Timbers has been published
A history of Tall Timbers has been published —
The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation: Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy by Robert L. Crawford and William R. Brueckheimer
The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantationtraces Henry Beadel’s evolution (Tall Timbers benefactor) from sportsman and naturalist to conservationist. Complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished, rare vintage photographs, it follows the transformation of the plantation into what its founders envisioned–a long-term plot study station, independent of government or academic funding and control.
There will be several book signings by the major author, Robert L. Crawford, including the first one at the Piney Woods Festival, Sunday, October 14 at Tall Timbers from 12 – 2 p.m.
The author will be signing the book at the following locations dates and times:
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Tall Timbers Piney Woods Festival – Sunday. Oct. 14 12 noon – 2:00 p.m.
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Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA – Friday, Nov. 2 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.;
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Bookshelf in Tallahassee, FL – Saturday, Nov. 3 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
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Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival in Thomasville, GA – Saturday, Nov. 17 from 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.
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Thomas County Library, Thomasville, GA – Sunday, Dec. 9 from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
The book can also be ordered now from the publisher, University Press of Florida or your favorite online bookseller.
Book Overview
"A fascinating history of the ecological consciousness and developing science of Florida’s Red Hills region."–Sara Warner, author of Down to the Waterline
"No other work captures the range of scientific studies so vigorously pursued over the past century from quail biology to fire ecology to ecosystem management."–Frederick R. Davis, author of The Man Who Saved Sea Turtles
The Red Hills region is an idyllic setting filled with longleaf pines that stretches from Tallahassee, Florida, to Thomasville, Georgia. At its heart lies Tall Timbers, a former hunting plantation.
In 1919, sportsman Henry L. Beadel purchased the Red Hills plantation to be used for quail hunting. As was the tradition, he conducted prescribed burnings after every hunting season in order to clear out the thick brush to make it more appealing to the nesting birds. After the U.S. Forest Service outlawed the practice in the 1920s, condemning it as harmful for the forest and its wildlife, the quail population diminished dramatically.
Astonished by this loss and encouraged by his naturalist friend Herbert L. Stoddard, Beadel set his sights on conserving the land in order to study the effects of prescribed burnings on wildlife. Upon his death in 1958, Beadel donated the entire Tall Timbers estate to be used as an ecological research station.
Robert L. Crawford was formerly a biologist on the Tall Timbers staff and has contributed many articles to The Auk, The Wilson Bulletin, The Oriole and other ornithological journals. William R. Brueckheimer was the author of Leon County Hunting Plantations: An Historical and Architectural Survey. After retiring as chair of the geography department at Florida State University, he was a Tall Timbers Beadel Fellow from 1973 to 1984.
Details: 360 pages 10x 12
Cloth: $34.95 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4148-3
Pubdate: 10/21/2012
